Senior Donor Communications Officer

• Develop regional communications strategies, priorities, messaging frameworks, and content plans aligned with fundraising and conservation objectives
• Advise Development colleagues, conservation teams, and regional leaders on donor positioning, narrative strategy, audience needs, and communications opportunities
• Resolve complex messaging challenges and reconcile competing stakeholder inputs
• Represent Donor Communications in regional, global, and cross-functional initiatives, meetings, and planning processes
• Lead communications for donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns, and major or principal gift opportunities
• Develop or oversee funding proposals, concept notes, regional and country overviews, donor visit materials, stewardship reports, campaign collateral, presentations, impact reports, and leadership messages
• Translate complex conservation, financial, and programmatic information into accurate, engaging donor-centered narratives
• Adapt messaging to donor interests, cultural contexts, audience needs, and fundraising relationship stages
• Lead complex communications initiatives from briefing and strategy through stakeholder alignment, execution, review, delivery, and evaluation
• Define objectives, audiences, deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, risks, and trade-offs
• Coordinate contributors across countries, functions, and seniority levels in a matrixed environment
• Facilitate decisions and maintain momentum when priorities compete
• Strengthen editorial standards, regional messaging consistency, multilingual content practices, and donor communications workflows
• Provide mentorship, constructive feedback, and subject-matter guidance
• Improve content production, tools, systems, and processes
• Oversee relevant vendor relationships and support training and knowledge-sharing
• Promote effective use of digital collaboration tools and AI-assisted content solutions while maintaining accuracy and institutional standards
• Develop and review content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
• Collaborate with colleagues in Brazil and other Latin American markets

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Philanthropy, International Affairs, Conservation, or a related field
• An equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience may be considered
• At least 5 to 7 years of relevant experience in donor communications, fundraising communications, strategic communications, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience developing audience-focused communications supporting fundraising, persuasion, engagement, campaigns, or other organizational objectives
• Experience leading complex cross-functional, regional, or multi-country projects from planning through delivery
• Experience advising senior stakeholders, influencing without direct authority, and aligning competing priorities
• Experience producing proposals, presentations, reports, campaign materials, and strategic narratives
• Strategic communications planning and narrative development
• Fundraising communications, donor engagement, and persuasive writing
• Strong writing, editing, synthesis, and storytelling skills
• Ability to interpret scientific, conservation, financial, and programmatic information
• Project management, prioritization, and delivery across multiple workstreams
• Stakeholder management and facilitation in matrixed organizations
• Editorial quality assurance and multilingual content coordination
• Familiarity with content management systems, project management platforms, digital storytelling, and AI-assisted content tools is desirable
• English professional fluency with very strong writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
• Spanish professional fluency with very strong writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
• Portuguese advanced working proficiency sufficient to understand discussions, participate in meetings, and collaborate directly with Portuguese-speaking colleagues, particularly in Brazil

• Mission-driven work contributing to a global organization working to conserve nature and address interconnected environmental challenges
• Regional reach across diverse Latin American countries and cultural contexts
• Strategic influence in major and principal gift fundraising communications
• Professional autonomy in a senior individual contributor role
• Multidisciplinary collaboration with Development, conservation, communications, and regional leadership colleagues
• Remote work from an approved location in Argentina or Mexico
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Accommodations in the application process for qualified individuals with disabilities